This year I will be organising the Greater (George) Washington Topology Seminar. This seminar is meant to serve everyone who reside in the Greater Washington Area and are interested in topology. However, anyone who is keen on attending this seminar is welcome to participate, irrespective of where you are located on Planet Earth! Just send me an email at rhea underscore palak at gwu dot edu and I will ensure you receive the meeting links. The seminar will take place on Fridays from 1pm to 2pm EDT. The passcode to view the recordings of previous talks is gwts@725.

Speaker	Date	Title of the Talk	Recording
Louis H. Kauffman	2nd October, 2020	Trivalent Graphs and Virtual Links	Link
Charles Frohman	9th October, 2020	Coordinatizing isotopy classes of webs in surfaces	Link
Thang T. Q. Lê	16th October, 2020	Quantum trace map for SLn skein algebras of surfaces	Link
Pierrick Bousseau	23rd October, 2020	The skein algebra of the 4-punctured sphere from curve counting	Link | Slides
Micah Chrisman	30th October, 2020	The virtual knot concordance group is not abelian	Link
Alex Chandler	6th November, 2020	Torsion in Thin Regions of Khovanov Homology	Link
Boštjan Gabrovšek	13th November, 2020	Bonded knots	Link
Razvan Gelca	20th November, 2020	Searching for Patterns in Skein Modules	Link
Helen Wong	11th December, 2020	The Roger-Yang Skein Algebra for Punctured Surfaces	Link
Mikhail Khovanov	5th February, 2021	Introduction to the Universal Construction	Link
Maciej Mroczkowski	5th March, 2021	Knots with cyclotomic Jones polynomials	Link
Victoria Lebed	12th March, 2021	Unexpected applications of homotopical algebra to knot theory	Link
Dirk Schütz	26th March, 2021	A Scanning Algorithm for Odd Khovanov Homology	Link
Peter Samuelson	2nd April, 2021	The Kauffman skein algebra of the torus	Link
Krzysztof Putyra	9th April, 2021	Unifying colored sl(2) link homology	Link | Slides
Michał Jabłonowski	16th April, 2021	Triple-crossing diagrams of knots	Link
Nathan Geer	23rd April, 2021	Re-normalized Quantum Link Invariants
Joseph Boninger	30th April, 2021	A Quantum invariant of Links in the Thickened Torus with Volume Conjecture Behavior	Link
William Goldman	7th May, 2021	Dynamics on character varieties and geometric structures	Link | Slides
Wade Bloomquist	14th May, 2021	Stated Skein Modules of Marked 3-Manifolds	Link | Slides